York County Solid Waste Authority

July 30, 2019 – Ellen O’Connor spoke to our club about the York County Solid Waste Authority.  The authority is a municipal authority created in 1971 under the Municipal Authorities Act and charged with the responsibility to manage York County’s municipal solid waste.  The Authority’s nine-member volunteer board sets the Authority’s policies and goals.  The Recycling and Planning Committee, the Administrative Committee, and the Community Services the York County Resource Recovery Center (YCRRC) Site Improvement Construction Project initiated in 2015 reached substantial completion in 2018.  The site improvement project created the infrastructure for the addition of future capacity, positioning the Authority to successfully provide for the responsible management of York County’s municipal solid waste well into the future. Site improvement construction completed in 2018 included, education center, tipping hall, scale house, ash handling and trash drop off area.

The YCRRC processed 443,339 tons of waste and from that, produced 166,932,165 million net kilowatt hours of electricity and reduced greenhouse gases in the form of carbon equivalents by more than 443,000 tons. The historical total of municipal solid waste processed since October 1989 was 12,160,293 tons at the end of December 2018.